The ‘chametz law’ proposed by MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) passed its first reading in the Knesset on Wednesday. The bill was approved by a vote of 60-49.
Arutz Sheva reports that the bill is meant to restore the status quo which existed before 2018, when security guards had the authority to prevent people from bringing chametz into hospitals during Pesach. In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the ban on bringing chametz into hospitals over Pesach assover was illegal.
Last year, former coalition chairwoman Idit Silman resigned from the previous government, preventing it from having a 61-seat-majority, over then-Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz’s efforts to order hospitals to allow chametz into hospitals during Pesach. Silman’s resignation and the loss of the coalition’s majority ultimately led to the government’s collapse and the November 2022 elections in which the current government was elected.
The bill under consideration would anchor the previous restrictions in law and stipulate that hospitals cannot permit chametz to be brought onto their premises during Pesach and continue to present themselves as kosher.
C’mon man, it’s 7 days in Eretz Yisroel where you can’t have chometz. Only 7 days, what babies.
Your headline stating that the religious Zionist org is opposed to the bill is quite the opposite, based on the article reporting. Unless the article is leaving it relevant info which should then be corrected.
Either the headline or article needs serious correcting
What about the deviant Speaker
Can you please find a more ba’kovodike picture of CK Moshe Gafni